Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 129
Indeed I did not intend to eat you.
Who acts: I · What happens: not intend, eat · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 intend | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 intend | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 intend | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 intend | advmod |
| 5 | intend | intend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 intend | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 intend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not intend | past · do-support | I | indeed property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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